Hopkins Smart Light Trailer Tail Light w Test Lights - 7 Function - Submersible - Driver's Side

Video Transcript for Hopkins Trailer Lights - Tail Lights - HM69500S Review

Speaker 1: Today we're going to take a look at the Hopkins driver side seven function smart light trailer tail light with the test lights for under 80 inch wide trailers. Now this trailer light will serve seven functions: stop light, tail light, turn signal, side marker, side reflex reflector, rear reflex reflector, and if you look at the bottom the license plate light. This is designed for trailers less than 80 inches wide.This light uses the unique smart light design, which has these built in test lights that will let you troubleshoot a wiring problem. Basically you'll see at the top there has an S and then there's an LED light above it, in the middle there's a T, and at the bottom there's a G. Basically what this does is the S, the stop and turn, and then the T, these will indicate if your trailer is receiving power. So they'll light up when it's receiving power for the stop and turn and the tail.

The bottom is a G, the light above that will flash to indicate if you have a bad ground. A poor ground is usually the most common problem with trailer wiring. I will be demonstrating those lights here at the end just to show you how it works.This light is a submersible polypropylene construction. It's ideal for boat trailers. They do use incandescent bulbs, which are easily replaceable.

The main bulb right in here is a 1157 bulb for the stop, turn, tail and license light. On the side mark it's a 193 bulb for the side marker light. If you notice on the back here, this light is designed to accept the industry standard three prong plug. Now if you don't have one, they do supply a PL3 pigtail harness that's included if you don't have the existing plug. It is a surface mount design.

You can see the included studs right here. This light is DOT, Department of Transportation, and SAE compliant. It does meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and the Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. This is a left-hand driver side. The way you can tell that it has the license plate light at the bottom here.Now the mounting studs center to center is two inches apart.

The wire configuration on the plug here is the white, of course with the eyelet on it will be for your ground, the red will be for your stop and turn light, and the black will be for your tail light. Harness length on this is about 10 inches. Just want to give you a few dimensions and then we'll hook it up. Overall width on this light end to end is right at 5-3/8 inches wide, overall height on it is going to be right at 4-1/2 inches tall, and the overall depth on it is right at 2-9/16 inches deep.What we're going to do is take our plug and go ahead and push it in. Okay. Then we'll go ahead and hook up our wires. We'll take our ground and hook that up to our white wire. We'll take our tail light, hook that up. Then we'll take our stop and turn, go ahead and hook that up. With those connected I'll go ahead and turn the power on. You can see the light will come on. We'll go ahead and turn off the overhead light, get you a better look. There you go, you can see the tail light working, side marker light working. If we show you the bottom, there's your license plate all working. If you notice the middle T light, the test light, is lit up to tell you that the tail light is working correctly. When we apply the brake, you notice it gets brighter. Then if you look at the top S test light, that comes on to show you that it's working correctly. Same way on the turn signals. It's all working correctly. If you notice the very bottom light, the G, the ground, is not on, which means you have a good ground.What will happen is, I'm going to disconnect the ground here, and just to show you when the ground disconnects and your lights aren't working, you notice that flashing red. That means you have a bad ground. It's pretty simple, you just find where your bad ground is, get it fixed, and you're back in business all ready to go. Go ahead and turn back on our overhead lights. Turn our power off. But that should do it for the review on the Hopkins driver side seven function smart light trailer tail light with the test lights for under 80 inch wide trailers.